Mandriva Linux 2008 is now available for download on the official site (release announcement), and on the network of public mirror servers. 2008 includes all the latest software and enhancements over previous Mandriva releases. You will find KDE 3.5.7 and the new GNOME 2.20 already integrated, kernel 2.6.22.9 with fair scheduling support, OpenOffice.org 2.2.1, a 3D-accelerated desktop (Compiz Fusion and Metisse), Firefox 2.0.0.6, and much more. You can read about the new features of Mandriva Linux 2008 in depth in the Release Tour. The release notes contain important information on changes from previous releases. The errata will contain information on any future known issues and solutions for them.

is that possible / stable to use mandriva .rpms in fedora 8? That would appear to be a great solution to have the speed/polish and security, not to mention Yum from fedora and have the few things i miss installed from the mandriva powerpack without the need to resort to 2nd rate community software that gives me dependency trouble almost all the time. i would really like a x64 multimedia enabled fedora.

I wouldn't recommend it as a way of life, no. There are sufficient differences between Fedora and MDV that it would not be a smart idea. I meant it only in the case of these packages, which as I noted are rather distro-independent by nature (commercial software for Linux tends to be statically linked as far as possible).